Behavioral Economics and Socio-Economics Journals: A Citation-Based Ranking

Azar, Ofer H.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.931351

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Behavioral Economics and Socio-Economics Journals: A Citation-Based Ranking

24 Pages Posted: 17 Oct 2006

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Ofer H. Azar

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management

Date Written: June 2006

Abstract

Journal quality is a major consideration for authors, readers, and promotion and tenure committees. Unfortunately, no objective quality measure exists for most behavioral economics and socio-economics journals. To address this need, the number of articles that cited each journal in these fields was recorded for 2001-2005, 1996-2000, and 1996-2005. In all periods the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization ranked first and the Journal of Economic Psychology second. In 2001-2005 the Journal of Socio-Economics ranked third. Data on abstract views and paper downloads in RePEc also suggests that JEBO ranks first, but JoEP and JSE now rank similarly.

Keywords: Journal rankings, Citation analysis, Behavioral economics, Socio-economics, Economics and psychology

JEL Classification: A14, A12, L82, B50, Z10, Y80

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Azar, Ofer H., Behavioral Economics and Socio-Economics Journals: A Citation-Based Ranking (June 2006). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=931351 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.931351